Best-known as the guitarist in Ahleuchatistas, last year Shane Perlowin stepped out with The Vacancy in Every Verse, a self-released, largely improvised solo record that reflects his main band's recent transition away from mathy precision and toward a sound with a little more breathing room. Though four of the ten tracks were cut with a rhythm section—drummer Ryan Oslance, now the only other member of Ahleuchatistas, and bassist Joseph Burkett—overall the album's feel is loose and spacious. On three pieces Perlowin plays tempo-shifting acoustic fingerstyle guitar, but otherwise he sticks to electric, occasionally complementing his spindly solos with delay-pedal loops whose heavily processed post-Bill Frisell curlicues provide the fertile soil for his fleet, squiggling lines and abstract, acidic sound puddles. —Peter Margasak / The Chicago Reader / June 2010 User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.